Soap Box Time!!

[Scubee]

Originally Posted by swissdave

Scubee I only left the RAF last year after 14 very happy years and would still be in if this Government was'nt hell bent on civilianizing the entire Airforce. I miss it a lot

I was aiming the comment on the free loading orificers who spend all day on YD planning diving stuff
and he's now at my old club which is one of the best in the force the lucky git

Oh... the Officers! OH... I'll go along with that

(Dad left nearly 20 years ago, and I think he still misses it!)

[NeilB]

Originally Posted by Scubee

Oh... the Officers! OH... I'll go along with that

(Dad left nearly 20 years ago, and I think he still misses it!)

Ah yes, but unlike the Army, the RAF send their officers into battle. When you run out of officers.....erm, you've lost.

[Richard Mason]

Originally Posted by NeilB

When you run out of officers.....erm, you've lost.

Only if you run out before the Fren.......err before they do.

[swissdave]

Originally Posted by NeilB

Ah yes, but unlike the Army, the RAF send their officers into battle. When you run out of officers.....erm, you've lost.

Ah yes very true.... but i put it to you who's more switched on? the army, one officer sends hundreds of men to get shot at..... RAF hundreds of men send one officer to get shot at...

[deepestandy]

Originally Posted by GLOC

Need I say more. Other than

NIMBY

Take solace in the fact that he RAF and MOD won't actually stop practice and drills, and he will just become more and more bitter and annoyed.

[rossc]

The they are a stupid bunch , there was a guy a couple of years ago who wrote into our local newspaper down here in Yeovil ...bascally he'd bought a house on a brand new development next to the Westland Helicopters site ...then desided to complain about the aircraft noise.... what a freakin idiot

[Jay_Benson]

I bet the people that sold him his house when he retired into the area laughed all the way to the bank.

When you move into a new area always always always carry out decent research into the area and what the noise, floods, etc are like - you can even ask people in the pub / shops etc. Did I say you should do that every time?

Yep - the man is a NIMBY. I bet they were there first.

[Cussy]

We operate a light aircraft (De Havilland Twin Otter) and fly surveys at low altitude (56m in UK, but 30m elsewhere). My job is to deal with people like these. Our aircraft is silent compared with a helicopter, yet we constantly get people trying it on with insurance claims.

When we were working in an unspecified part of the UK I took a call from a farmer "hello, are you with that aircraft" ; "yes sir" ; "my cows, they've just been artificially inseminated....." I really wanted to say "for f' sake, we've been accused of allsorts, but that just too far fetched"

When I grew up in Swindon the sound of the Hercules going over all day every day was just part of life. When I then moved to Liverpool I found it too quiet!
Rob

[MattS]

Originally Posted by Whoji

They probably want the noise kept down to hear the sounds of the country.....

We live almost in the country. The noise of fecking gardeners get's right up my nose. Strimmers, lawnmowers, bloody leaf hoovers. Any fecking time the sun comes out and I want to sit in the garden....the drone of electrical garden gadgets for hours on end until it starts to rain or the Sun goes down.

The Chinooks don't bother me at all.

[keith_henson]

my old farm in cambridgeshire was a WP for the F15 squadron at RAF Lakenheath, and i bloody love machines that go twice the speed of sound, and dog fight above you house!.

Many an hour sat in the garden watching the dog fights between F15/F18 and also the low bombing runs of teh A10s and C130 spectre gunships.

That bloke has no idea about noise levels of aircraft. Especially when an F15 flys over you house at 500 feet chasing an A10 that is ground hugging!